Mississippi State coach Joe Moorhead gave his second passionate speech of the week following the Bulldogs’ loss against LSU on Saturday.

LSU had 415 yards of offense in a 36-13 victory, but the Bulldogs made it somewhat interesting in the first half as they had 3 sacks of QB Joe Burrow. It was just 3-0 after the first quarter, but LSU pulled away in the second and third quarters.

“This week we stressed, last night at the hotel and this morning, is that we were going to freaking fight,” Moorhead said. “No matter what the circumstance was, all right, we were going to continue to punch, continue to scratch, continue to claw and get up off the mat, and no matter what the clock said, what the score said, we were going to keep plugging away and keep fighting. I thought our kids did that. That was a different football team than I saw on the field against Tennessee. That was stressed. We were going to play with emotion, we were going to play with pride, and we were going to play with intelligence. The intelligence part maybe we didn’t get.”

Joe Moorhead’s opening statement was a very different Joe Moorhead.

Ton of emotion from the head coach following the 36-13 loss to #2 LSU.

What a loser! Who made the turnovers “over his head “? This team defensively played better which you had nothing to do with. The offense were anemic and non existent in the third quarter when the game was in doubt. Sir you are in over your head an the kids know it, competition knows it, and you know it. Please resign and go take the Rutgers Job, please!

What a loser! Who made the turnovers “over his head “? This team defensively played better which you had nothing to do with. The offense was anemic and non-existent in the third quarter when the game was in doubt. Sir, you are in over your head an the kids know it, competition knows it, and you know it. Please resign and go take the Rutgers Job, please!

I don’t think anybody really expected to beat LSU tonight. And, no one likes losing, not the coaches, not the student athletes, and certainly not the fans, but I feel we will survive this and be better for it. I am looking forward to the future. Go DAWGS!!

Tough year and tough game, but the team definitely fought. The coaches are starting a lot of players that they probably didn’t intend to start this year. No excuses, managing academic issues within the team is all part of the product on the field. So this year we are seeing no consistency from week to week. On the bright side young players are getting experience. Hail State!

With so many true freshmen having to come in and play early, due to the suspensions and the injuries we’ve been seeing, I figured it would be a rough year.

But considering the good teams they’ve played so far, they’ve done fairly well and they’re gaining experience that will be beneficial in the long term. These young players have me looking forward to the next couple of years to see exactly what Moorhead envisions for his program. The fans just need to have patience and stop thinking State is supposed to immediately jump to the same level as Bama or Clemson and the other elite teams out there.

No one in their right mind expected that, even if we didn’t have the academic suspensions that really hurt, like Willie Gay and Marcus Murphy. But likewise no one should have expeceted the low-voltage playing and QB confusion that lead to losing against Kansas State and Tennessee. There is NO EXCUSE for those losses. NONE! And it all falls on the petrified skull of Joe Moorhead.

I’m not climbing back on the JoMo Express – not even the caboose. If they play like they did today for the rest of the season AND beat the Aggies and the “Landsharks” (what a crock of a mascott) then I’ll reconsider. But if their voltage drops and we see ANY sign of give-up – even against Alabama – I will continue screaming for Moorhead’s head.

I actually enjoyed watching this game more than I thought I would. We should have been able to run the ball, that has to be fixed. Defense is actually improving, if not for some miscommunication and blown coverages, lsu scores three less tds or at least works a lot harder for them. Run defense definitely improving. I want to see more of pickering. Burrow three a couple of dimes that I don’t see any other qb getting of, man he got good. I am, at least for now, slightly less perterbed and am actually looking forward aTm, whom both cbs and the sec network are unaware that we play, apparently. Egg bowl might be tough.

I’m not ready to scramble back aboard the MoJo Express as it careens toward the edge of a clif. But I do think the fight and spirit that has been lacking recently was somehow rediscovered. Maybe its just playing in front of a home crowd that got the team motivated.

But those penalties. And not trying-too-hard penalties. Just dumb ones. Especially the pre-snap stuff. We won’t win three more games if that isn’t fixed. DRILL DRILL DRILL.